Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some areas Volvo and Saab-Scania are using a team-production method, in which auto and truck components are assembled by semi-autonomous groups of four to seven workers each. At times they can decide in what order to tackle their tasks and even who their foreman will be. In another method, the men move along the line with the cars performing each successive assembly operation. The automakers are also rotating some assembly-line workers to different jobs. An employee may attach seat headrests one day, bore holes in the seat framework the next, connect back supports and lift seat...
...Eskimos. They and the few whites in Barrow form a tightly knit community. There is not much money in the settlement's treasury. But when a new emergency fire vehicle was needed, the residents chipped in to help the town buy a $30,000 fully tracked fire truck that can go anywhere in any weather...
...lonely teen-age broncin' buck, with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, But I knew I was out of luck The day the music died...
...vast majority of cases, this conclusion is erroneous. Herrnstein begs the important questions in presenting the data primarily in terms of average I.Q. He vastly underplays the importance of differences within each occupation. He notes only incidentally that one truck driver registered an I.Q. of 149, and a P.R. man who supposedly needs an I.Q. of around 126 had only 100. According to well-accepted statistics of the Harvard Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR), I.Q. explains only 17 per cent in occupational differences...
...mining and oil-drilling equipment to the Russians in return for $60 million worth of Soviet nonferrous metals. Two weeks earlier, the Commerce Department had approved export licenses for American firms to ship $528 million worth of heavy equipment intended for the Soviet Union's new Kama River truck factory. Meanwhile, the Nixon Administration announced the sale of $130 million worth of corn and other cattle "feed to the Russians...